OET interlinear REV 20:8

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

τὰ ἐν ταῖς τέσσαρσι γωνίαις τῆς γῆς

the ¬which in the (Some words not found in SR-GNT: καὶ ἐξελεύσεται πλανῆσαι τὰ ἔθνη τὰ ἐν ταῖς τέσσαρσιν γωνίαις τῆς γῆς τὸν Γὼγ καὶ Μαγώγ συναγαγεῖν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸν πόλεμον ὧν ὁ ἀριθμὸς αὐτῶν ὡς ἡ ἄμμος τῆς θαλάσσης)

John is speaking as if the earth literally had four corners. He means the most distant places on the earth. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “at the most distant places on the earth”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / merism

τὰ ἐν ταῖς τέσσαρσι γωνίαις τῆς γῆς

the ¬which in the (Some words not found in SR-GNT: καὶ ἐξελεύσεται πλανῆσαι τὰ ἔθνη τὰ ἐν ταῖς τέσσαρσιν γωνίαις τῆς γῆς τὸν Γὼγ καὶ Μαγώγ συναγαγεῖν αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸν πόλεμον ὧν ὁ ἀριθμὸς αὐτῶν ὡς ἡ ἄμμος τῆς θαλάσσης)

John is using the most distant places on the earth to mean those places and everything between them and his location. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or plain language. Alternate translation: “everywhere in the world”

Note 3 topic: translate-names

τὸν Γὼγ καὶ Μαγώγ

¬the Gog and Magog

The word Gog is the name of a ruler whom the prophet Ezekiel addresses in Ezekiel 38:1–39:20. The word Magog is the name of the land that he ruled.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

τὸν Γὼγ καὶ Μαγώγ

¬the Gog and Magog

John is using the ruler named Gog and his land of Magog symbolically to represent the nations whom the devil will deceive. He means that these nations will form a great army together and attack the people of God, just as Ezekiel described Gog gathering a great coalition of peoples against Israel. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “forming a great coalition of peoples”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo

ὧν ὁ ἀριθμὸς αὐτῶν

˱of˲_whom the number ˱of˲_them_‹is›

It might seem that the expression of whom their number contains extra information that would be unnatural to express in your language. If so, you could shorten it. Alternate translation: “whose number”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / simile

ὡς ἡ ἄμμος τῆς θαλάσσης.

like the sand ˱of˲_the sea

The point of this comparison is that the number of soldiers in this army will be very large, just as the number of grains of sand on the shore of the sea is very large. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. Alternate translation: “will be very large, like the number of grains of sand on the seashore”